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The Flin Flon and District Chamber of Commerce is on healthy financial footing with surplus dollars totaling just over $33,000. At the chamber's annual general meeting yesterday, past-president Dave Kendall outlined the financial statement for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30. "We are in a fairly good situation," he said. The surplus includes $15,000 set aside for the proposed Peace Park, but if that initiative does not come to fruition, the money would be spent on other projects. There is also $14,700 in unrestricted money and $3,560 left over from bingo fundraisers, which the chamber no longer holds, that must be spent on community projects. A good portion of the total surplus is attributed to the chamber's Flin Flon coin fundraiser over the past year. Kendall noted that the organization turned a profit of $16,000 on the coins. The coins kept the chamber out of the red for the past fiscal year, as the organization achieved a surplus of $8,500 in 2003-04. The chamber still has just over 1,500 coins remaining and plans to continue selling them. The gold and silver coins depict Flintabbatey Flonatin on one side and the City of Flin Flon emblem on the other.
